GRE Word List
POTENTIAL
existing in possibility : capable of development into actuality
The meaning of the word potential is existing in possibility : capable of development into actuality.
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| tenancy | a holding of an estate or a mode of holding an estate |
| inundate | overwhelm |
| reticent | inclined to be silent or uncommunicative in speech : reserved |
| affable | being pleasant and at ease in talking to others |
| congenial | pleasant |
| dossier | a file containing detailed records on a particular person or subject |
| addiction | a compulsive, chronic, physiological or psychological need for a habit-forming substance, behavior, or activity having harmful physical, psychological, or social effects and typically causing well-defined symptoms (such as anxiety, irritability, tremors, or nausea) upon withdrawal or abstinence : the state of being addicted |
| obdurate | stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing |
| resort | one that affords aid or refuge : resource |
| layman | a person who is not a member of the clergy |